“The War Is Over, I Am Now Back To The Family” – Gov Fubara Declares, Support Wike’s Rainbow Coalition

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers Stare, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, declared his political battle with his godfather, Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister over.

Declaring his unalloyed commitment and unflinching support for the re-election bid of President Bola Tinubu, the Governor said he has fully re-united with his estranged political family.

At the groundbreaking ceremony for the reconstruction and equipping of Riven Medical Facility, a public/private partnership Pharmaceutical factory, Governor Fubara whose second term ambition was, in May, unceremoniously halted,  informed that he has now signed on to the Rivers State Rainbow Coalition, a multi-political platform, founded and promoted by the FCT Minister for the purposes of driving the second term ambition of President Tinubu ,and the election of  Hon Kingsley Chinda, the All Progressive Congress, APC, Rivers State gubernatorial candidate.

Apparently addressing growing uncertainties, and widespread speculations concerning his preferred candidates, Governor Fubara urged his supporters and admirers alike to back the re-election bid of President Tinubu and the choice of Chinda as his successor.

“I am supporting our Rainbow Coalition. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is our presidential candidate ,and he is the one we are supporting.

“The Governorship candidate of the Rainbow Coalition is the one ,I am supporting.  Anybody who believes in me will support every candidate under the Rainbow Coalition.

“I am already in the family. I have returned to our family. Give your total support to the Rainbow Coalition. The war is over; it is now time for peace and that peace will take us to another level”, Gov. Fubara stated .

Further speaking, the Governor who since his assumption of office in 2023 had been fighting to fend off   the excruciating weight and  overbearing influence of his benefactor, Wike, strongly distanced himself from any further moves that are likely to precipitate disunity in the already beleaguered Rivers state.

” I am no longer a party to anything that will bring any form of disunity in this State. We have done what we need to do, and now we are moving forward”, he declared.